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Prove?

Who are we?

Chemical, Food and Pharma industry

Prove engineering provides process design and applied chemical engineering to the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industry. We are experts in identifying and implementing technical solutions for the optimization of operational costs, product quality and production capacity. We can advise on process design during the early stages of a project and have the ability to guide the new process all the way up to commissioning. We enjoy puzzling as long as it takes to find the optimal solution for your processes and equipped with our chemical, mechanical and process engineering background there is a big chance we will solve all of your puzzles.

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The Team

The Prove Engineering All-Stars

Jos van der Gugten

Jos is a Sr. Process Engineer with more than 18 years of experience in the process industry with positions held at Thermphos and Kerry Group. If you’re interested in his specific skill set, please click the ball below his picture…

Elwin Sparreboom

Elwin has held process engineering positions at Kerry Group and KH Engineering before teaming up with Jos van der Gugten to form Prove Engineering. Click the ball icon below his picture to find out more about Elwin…

Christiaan Koppenaal

Christiaan is an experienced process engineer with positions held at Krohne Oil & Gas and Tebodin. With projects executed in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry he is the perfect addition to the Prove Engineering team.

Jan-Willem Oomkes

Process Engineer

With positions held at Sanquin and Xendo, Jan-Willem is exactly the kind of process engineer you need for your high end engineering projects.

Liquid-liquid extraction plant

BigBag loading system

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